Adam Driver Quotes

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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